Team Building - A look at Team Building and what it is exactly!

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Team Building

This document is all about understanding teams and team building training; the purpose of team building activities; why corporate team building events can be effective; planning a team building strategy; building creative teams.

Why a team building event?

When people say they want a team building event their picture is of this perfectly working group of people. But they don't take the time to pin that picture down and really get clear what the issues are. If they did that then their team building activity would certainly help them get their team working more effectively.

So, before you can even tackle the 'how' you need to tackle the 'why'.

Here are some questions that will help you clarify 'why a team building event'.

Do you want people working better together?
Do you want to set new team goals and agreements?
Do you need to iron out communication difficulties that have crept in?
Do you want a jolly - to reward the team for being terrific?
Do you simply want to get everyone's creative juices going and brainstorm new ideas?
Do you need to set clear parameters and boundaries so everyone knows what's expected of them?
Do you want to inject some fresh enthusiasm and energy into a group that's been working too hard and may have lost sight of the goal posts?
Have the goals posts moved and you need to let everyone know that?

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Read more about team building skills training, development and coaching tips @ Impact Factory

For Tailored Team Building Skills Training see Team Building Skills Training

For One-to-One Team Building Skills see Executive Coaching

If you want some in-depth thoughts about Assertiveness, read the article called Team Building - Building a Good Team on our Jolly Good Read page

For an example a recent tailored programme see Team Event for DEFRA